Tiny Bronte Books - Joan Lennon

Another delightful resource I wanted to share with you can be found here.  Nine tiny handmade books, written and constructed by Charlotte and Branwell Bronte when they were children - to just see these little objects through the glass of an exhibition case would be a treat ...

... but now we can read them as well!  

(photos from a Harvard Magazine article)

After painstaking conservation using surgical instruments and fibres of kozo paper no wider than a human hair, these minute Bronte volumes have been made available in full, free, online.  There is a fascinating article about the project in the Harvard Gazette.

So, whether for research or just for your own reading pleasure, here is the full list -

By Charlotte Brontë:
Scenes on the great bridge, November 1829
The silver cup: a tale, October 1829
Blackwoods young mens magazine, August 1829
An interesting passage in the lives of some eminent personages of the present age, June 1830
The poetaster: a drama in two volumes, July 1830
The adventures of Mon. Edouard de Crack, February 1830

By Patrick Branwell Brontë:
Branwells Blackwoods magazine, June 1829
Magazine, January 1829
Branwells Blackwoods magazine, July 1829

And, with a certain sense that I may be lowering the tone, here is a video for something I long to own -

Joan Lennon's website.

Joan Lennon's blog.